Bekzat Nurlanbekova

Bio: I have 10 years of experience in Software Engineering. Masters degree in Data Science. Currently, interested in applying AI-driven methods to address real-world challenges in decision-making systems and healthcare.

Research

Contrastive self-supervised representation learning for retinal fundus image classification

Monash University

2025 – 2026

Designed a research pipeline comparing self-supervised frameworks (SimSiam and SimCLR) across multiple augmentation strategies tailored for fundus images.
Self-supervised models pre-training on unlabeled dataset.
Linear-probing to evaluate learned representations. Fine-tuning to evaluate downstream classification and comparision with baseline model. All experiments were held on HPC GPU clusters
Research manuscript submitted to CV conference.

Experience & Education

Jul 2024 – Jun 2026

Master of Data Science

Monash University Malaysia

Data Wrangling · Machine Learning · Statistical Modelling · Data Visualisation (Tableau, R) · Big Data (Apache Spark)

Jan 2023 – Jul 2023

Scrum Master

Amdocs Inc. · Project: Veon Beeline Kazakhstan

Facilitated Agile/Scrum ceremonies and coordinated backlog prioritisation for a cross-functional team
Tracked sprint metrics to identify process bottlenecks and drive continuous delivery improvements

Jun 2022 – Jan 2023

Software Engineer

Amdocs Inc. · Project: Veon Beeline Kazakhstan

Developed and maintained REST APIs in Java, integrating with PostgreSQL and Couchbase
Deployed production changes via CI/CD pipelines to AWS Kubernetes in containerised (Docker) environments

Sep 2020 – Jun 2022

QA Automation Engineer

Amdocs Inc. · Project: Veon Beeline Russia

Developed Java-based regression test suites, reducing production defects by ~33% through improved test coverage and shift-left strategies

Jul 2015 – Sep 2020

Software Support Engineer

Amdocs Inc. · Project: Kcell Kazakhstan

Supported enterprise BSS modules (Customer Management, Billing, Accounts Receivable) for a platform serving 3M+ subscribers
Maintained 100% data accuracy on cross-system financial exports from Amdocs billing to SAP Finance through data profiling and mismatch analysis

May 2012 – Jul 2014

Web Developer

Lab of the Future LLC · Almaty, Kazakhstan

Built a web-based BI application for livestock monitoring deployed across 16 farms in South Kazakhstan, including reporting tools and data visualisation in Groovy

2009 – 2013

BSc Computer Systems & Software Engineering

IITU Kazakhstan

GPA 3.62 / 4.0